Although Saddam Hussein has already been sentenced to hang, his genocide trial continues, and as it goes on, more and more details about the terrible crimes committed under Saddam’s leadership are coming to light. In court on Monday, November 27, 2006, witnesses offered testimony about watching their relatives being killed by firing squads or about being subjected to torture themselves. Thomas Jefferson believed that even evils like these ultimately bring about something good. He wrote to Benjamin Rush in 1800:
“When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us; and Providence has in fact so established the order of things as that most evils are the means of producing some good.”
Let’s hope that Jefferson was right, and that the horrific acts perpetrated by Saddam Hussein and his regime will help the world recognize other evils in the future and perhaps find a way to prevent them.
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